Revival is...

[John of Japan]

"Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not" (Jer. 33:3).

Believers can call upon God--praying!--and see great things happen--revival!--in His name!

 

[John of Japan]

"Emptiness and willingness." Lee Roberson, pastor of the famous Highland Park Baptist Church, telling what is needed for the Spirit's power and revival.

 

[37818]

I understand winning the lost to be a result of revival. People can actually proclaim the Gospel when they are bitter or sinning in some other way. For God's true power to come down, His people need to be right with Him. And the verses about revival I've posted so far have been aimed at believers.

But we're not that far off.

What passage are we referring to?

 

[Hazelelponi]

A poster since banned opined that American Christianity is declining, and I agreed, saying that America needs revival. In this thread I'd like to see single words, short phrases, quotes, and Bible verses telling what you think revival is, how it comes, etc.

"Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent." Revelation 2:4-5

^^ revival

 

[Hazelelponi]

Maybe, maybe not. I understand revival to be winning the lost.

You can't win the lost when you're lost and wandering yourself. Jesus called it blind guides I believe.

You have to be in right relationship.

 

[John of Japan]

What passage are we referring to?

"Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?" (Ps. 85:6)

 

[John of Japan]

"Emptiness and willingness." Lee Roberson, pastor of the famous Highland Park Baptist Church, telling what is needed for the Spirit's power and revival.

The 1970s at Highland Park Baptist Church in Chattanooga was a time of revival. I remember R. G. Lee preaching his famous sermon "Payday Someday," and hundreds getting right with God or being saved. I heard E. J. Daniels preach "God's Three Deadlines," and the same thing happened. Then there was Richard Wurmbrand, who wrote Tortured for Christ, and of course John R. Rice preaching revival several times a year.

 

[John of Japan]

"When a man says, 'Oh! yes, we are getting on very well, we do not want any revival that I know of,' I fear me he is not low enough to be blessed; and when you and I pray to God with pride in us, with self-exaltation, with a confidence in our own zeal, or even in the prevalence of our own prayers of themselves, we have not come low enough to be blessed. An humble church will be a blessed Church; a Church that is willing to confess its own errors and failures, and to lie at the foot of Christ's cross, is in a position to be favoured of the Lord" (Spurgeon, op cit, p. 9).